Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justification for our complaints? Check out these prices: $19.99 for an economy pack (36 condoms) of Trojan-Enz with spermicidal lubricant. Oh-so-personal personalized Create-A-Cards ("Now you can personalize one from you and your pet") for only $3-50. $3.99 each for Pooh conditioning shampoo, Owl anti-bacterial soap and Tigger bath bubbles for those lucky enough to live in one of Harvard's prized tubequipped suites...
...probably the least flamboyant of the Republican contenders. But there he was in a bright vaudeville spotlight, one hand clasping a hand mike to his crooning lips and the other around the waist of his blond song-and-dance partner, Astaire and Rogers-style. "Spotted owl, Kathleen Brown/ Endangered species of renown," they harmonized lustily. "We beat the California blue-hoos ... Yeah...
...since the dead sea Scrolls has anything found in a cave caused so much excitement. The paintings and engravings, more than 300 of them, amount to a sort of Ice Age Noah's ark-images of bison, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, of a panther, an owl, even a hyena. Done on the rock walls with plain earth pigments-red, black, ocher-they are of singular vitality and power, and despite their inscrutability to modern eyes, they will greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture...
...species represented on the walls of the Chauvet cave, as it has already been named, had never before been seen in prehistoric artwork: an owl engraved in rock and a panther depicted in red pigment. The image of a hyena, also painted in red, is only the second one discovered in Stone Age caves...
...slammed to the turf by a Houston Oilers linebacker. The high toll among quarterbacks (the Cleveland Browns' Vinny Testaverde and two Los Angeles Rams passers also went down with concussions) has led some N.F.L. watchers to joke morbidly that the QB is a species more endangered than the spotted owl...